Keep your standing training, fool!!! YOU JUST GOT RICK ROLLED!!!
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Originally Posted by
Snake77
IMO...Do yourself a favor and DO NOT skimp on San Ti. It is very important and the better your root and structure ecspecially with movement the better your xingyi will be.
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San Ti and standing exercises are essential to the xingyi training, and actually to all of the internal martial arts. Your power should always come from your rooting in anything, which of course is what standing training prepares you for along with qi circulation. Yiquan (xingyi derivative) focuses extensively on this for that reason. :cool:
Oh, just a little tidbit of info for ya UK MONK: A simplified version of Xingyi was taught to soldiers during the Sino-Japanese War. This is significant in my opinion because it tells me a few things: One, it was easy enough to understand the basic concepts and apply them to REAL combat for the everyday soldier, and two, it didn't take a long time to learn because they didn't HAVE the time to learn complicated moves. In other words, :eek::eek:XINGYI IS BATTLE TESTED AND PROVEN TO WORK AND SIMPLE WORKS BEST.:eek::eek:
Tang Shou Tao founder Hong Yixiang and his teacher Zhang Junfeng taught Xingyiquan first out of the three neijia because they believed it taught the basics of IMA best, and takes less time to cultivate qi in and helps improve the bagua and taiji skills later.:confused: